Elder Field Is Teaching Families!!

Hey family and friends!

Hope all or you had a wonderful week! We had some cool things happen, I'm still not sure what I'm doing with this whole zone leader thing but I'm just kinda winging it as I go.... It's quite a change from normal missionary life. Like we still go hard and work all day and stuff but I just have more things to worry about. :)

Anyway, let's just dive in.

Tuesday, was a pretty tough day. We finally took our car in to get it fixed. (Mind you this is the 2nd we have had to do it in a 2-week time frame) We had some body damage from the previous transfer that I was not a part of. Apparently, Elder Harris and his last companion had a moving van back into them. So, we took it I to the shop in Fairfield which is the next city over. We had the AP's bring us a temporary car. But later that day we found out it was having some problems too.... So, we just took it really easy in that car. Haha our luck with cars lately has been rough. So, we were scheduled to get our car back on Friday. We had 2 lessons fall through which was lame, so we went out and did some contacting. Met some really nice people. We met the mother of one of the other missionaries’’ investigators which was cool. Apparently, she had been pretty standoffish towards the missionaries but she was nice to us and actually asked us a bunch if questions. So, I hope that helped the other missionaries :) who knows

Wednesday, we made a video for the mission. I don't know if I have ever explained it to any of y’all but when I was tech elder the AP's and us decided we wanted to do a video series for the mission, where older more experienced missionaries could share what they have learned (assigned by president of course) regarding certain missionary skills. Well, my companion and I got asked to do one of these videos so we made the video on Wednesday about how to begin teaching an investigator. So that was fun. We also had a lesson with a family we picked up. They are the Grindle family. Mike (dad) Liney (mom) Joseph (10) and Emily (2) and we taught them the plan of salvation. It was so good! They actually had a bunch of questions on baptism. Which was pretty dope! After the lesson, we were heading out when the mom stopped us and asked us to stay for a bit longer so she could answer some questions. She told us she feels lost and just wants to find some direction in her life. We talked about the scriptures and prophets and how they help us find direction. After we talked she seemed super interested in read the Book of Mormon. So that's exciting! We invited them to church but they were hesitant so we offered a church tour the next day and they accepted! It was an awesome lesson :)

The next day we had interviews with president and then had our church tour!! It went super well! We had 3 members show up to help us with the tour. 1 of them brought their kids to play with Joseph and Emily! It was so good! The members made the difference. Their testimony really helped out! Mike and Liney seemed super happy and looked considerably at ease than before we started. :) They said they wouldn't be able to make it this week, but next week for sure. So, we are pumped about that!! Please pray for the mom and dad! We really hope we will see them at church and they will want to be baptized! Joseph the son would get baptized right now if he could. He is the one kind of spear heading everything but we want to make sure he has support from the family. And we would really like to see the whole family enter the waters of baptism together!

So, on Saturday we had the first event of Vacaville rising! We made the story of one night we were all asleep and someone forgot to lock the horses up and they all ran away. Or were stolen. Idk haha. So, the whole day Saturday the zone went without cars (unless their dinner was far away) but we saw a lot of really cool things happen. When you’re out of your car walking, the Lord places people in your path. And boy did he! We found a new investigator and we really promising potentials. The zone saw some cool things :) The Spanish picked up 2 new investigators, the sisters found some potentials, and over all just a really good time. :) It was really warm but the heat can't stop us :)

Other than that, we had a lesson with the Busbys this week. (another family we are teaching) It's a family of 3. Marc the dad. Laena the mom, and Ethan the son who is 10. And he asked me to teach him guitar. That was cool! So, I now have a guitar student guys! Haha but they are super solid. Marc the dad is a little hesitant. But he asked us a bunch if questions about the books of Abraham and Moses, and bunch of other stuff that we usually wait to teach people about. But these are questions he has had for a while and no one has answered and he was started to get frustrated. After he asked the questions it felt like the spirit told us, don't hold back anything, tell him everything. So, we gave him the most straight up answer we have ever given haha it was dope. The spirit was super strong. And he seemed put at ease about it all. From it we found out some concerns of his. One being he doesn't believe in Jesus Christ. Yet.;) but it was really productive.

Anyway, that's all folks. Hope you all are doing amazing! I love and miss you all. The gospel is true. Joseph Smith was and is a prophet, and Jesus Christ is the savior and redeemer of the world, the Book of Mormon is in reality the word of God and it was written for us in our day. God loves us! And he wants the best for us. Turn to him and you will direction. I love you all and I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

-Elder Riley Field

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